Zeitblom, Bartholomäus

Zeitblom, Bartholomäus (b Nördlingen, c.1460; d Nördlingen, c.1520).
German painter of religious works. He was the leading painter of the day in Ulm (where he became a citizen in 1482), and his prosperous workshop supplied large altarpieces for a number of Swabian towns. His calm, dispassionate, lyrical style appealed strongly to certain 19th-century German critics and he was called a ‘German Perugino’ or even more incongruously a ‘German Leonardo’. A few portraits have been given to him, but their attribution is disputed.